Talking to educators wrestling with how to handle the use of AI by students—especially in digital technology classes—reminded me how much they truly care about teaching and guiding others. I was privileged to contribute to their professional development at the Read more
This AI Literacy Review covers Stanford’s Global AI Vibrancy Tool, the future of academics in the AI age, people’s emotions and AI literacy, health workers’ need for AI literacy, librarians’ frameworks for AI literacy and information literacy, OpenAI’s free course Read more
This AI Literacy Review covers a fun Halloween contest to build a team’s AI literacy, generational divides over AI, free AI courses, AI literacy in Arabic, reusable prompts, AI champions in U.S. government agencies, universal AI literacy module, more frameworks Read more
Ethan Mollick’s new book Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI (2024) is hot stuff. After waiting on a long list for a library copy, I finally got my hands on it and breezed through it in a few days. It Read more
This AI Literacy Review covers AI literacy for people with low/no digital skills, fear from employees about AI at work, more gender gaps in AI, cultural values of LLMs, AI literacy among librarians in Zambia, U.S. Department of Education’s AI Read more
If you want to know the kinds of activities and innovation happening at the intersection of culture, academia, and AI, you can find it in the presentations at Fantastic Futures, the international conference on AI for Libraries, Archives, and Museums Read more
This AI Literacy Review looks at 1 million ChatGPT chats released in the WildChat dataset, 32,000 tweets about prompting, AI usage in the US, AI literacy for veterans and librarians, AI courses and resources, AI literacy and readiness frameworks, AI Read more
This AI Literacy Review looks at AI’s impact on children and MIT-developed storybooks for early AI literacy, an AI literacy framework for ocean professionals, an AI literacy mini-course for medical students, AI style homogenization, AI upskilling predictions, US Senate hearings Read more
This AI Literacy Review covers international initiatives, a scaffolded AI literacy framework out of New Zealand, OpenAI Academy, AI in Education special journal issue, AI literacy among library and information science students in Asia and the Middle East, AI and Read more
This AI Literacy Review looks at how teens are using Generative AI without teacher or parental involvement, workers’ poor assessment of organizational AI training programs, executives not adopting the tools themselves, LinkedIn opting in users to training their AI models, Read more
This AI Literacy Review covers AI transparency developments in Australia, prototypes built with Generative AI, AI literacy in museums and libraries, UNESCO’s long-awaited release of AI frameworks for teachers and students, interest in AI policies and recommendations for educators in Read more
This AI Literacy Review covers a creative squirrel analogy for Generative AI, low detectability of AI-generated text, responses to Ted Chiang’s critique of AI in The New Yorker, gender and age gaps in AI usage and training in organizations, AI Read more
In this AI Literacy Review, we look at an AI literacy workshop for US military staff, AI literacy initiatives at a library in Singapore, Yale University’s big investment in AI literacy, an AI exploratorium for college staff and students, the Read more
This AI Literacy Review explores a machine learning game for kids and families, algorithmic literacy for at-risk populations, AI as a necessary new skillset, Australians and AI usage, libraries’ role in AI literacy, AI impact on college writing classes, young Read more
This AI Literacy Review covers MIT’s 700+ AI risk database, research on AI literacy competencies, AI training for bank employees and tennis fans, Gen. AI in Libraries conference, a guidebook for AI in scholarly writing, first law school to offer Read more
As research on Generative AI begins hitting the presses, we need to examine these studies critically just as we would with work from other fields and avoid contributing to the either/or of hype or fear when it comes to this Read more
This AI Literacy Review covers research on AI literacy assessment, marketers and journalists adopting ChatGPT, women’s perceived need for training first, experts plus AI, American Bar Association’s opinion on Generative AI, AI skills in demand for MBAs, the AI divide, Read more
This AI Literacy Review looks at new pathways for thinking about AI tools, job impacts, lack of AI readiness, movements in governments, a student-led AI resource site, AI teaching assistant, the role of AI in writing, whether to disclose usage, Read more
There’s a growing theme in the research and discussions about AI: employees want and need training in AI tools! This review covers research and posts about the lack of employee training and AI systems documentation, the gender gap in AI Read more
This review looks at AI literacy as a high priority for staff in organizations, AI colleagues possibly on the horizon, learning through building bots, AI training in healthcare and government, new courses for kids and high schoolers, AI skills for Read more